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Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial commemorates the Battle of Lake Erie that took place near Ohio's South Bass Island, in which Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry led a fleet to victory in one of the most decisive naval battles to occur in the War of 1812. Located on an isthmus on the island, the memorial also celebrates the lasting peace between Britain, Canada, and the United States that followed the war.
The 352-foot column was erected in 1912-15, and believed to be the world's tallest Doric column. The memorial was designed after an international competition from which the winning design by Joseph H. Freelander and A.D. Seymour was chosen. The column itself also functions as a working lighthouse.
The National Park Service site was established as Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial National Monument by Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 2, 1936. It was redesignated a National Memorial and renamed on October 26, 1972. As with all historic areas administered by the National Park Service, the memorial was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. The listing's boundaries were increased in 2015.
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I put on my walking boots, pop my Razorbacks wooly hat one, add an extra layer of clothing, and set off, taking the less muddy route to the end of the street then turning down Station Road. I had done this to have a look at the house at the end, as by this time last year his daffodils had been in flower for six weeks. Not this year, many have buds, but some time from opening. However, just round the corner there was a cultivated primrose open, but I would find no wild ones open along the roads to Kingsdown.
Down at the bottom of the hill, the new house now has its foundation completed, so now ready for the walls to be built on the house replacing the old ruinous old cottage that used to be there.
I huff and puff my way up the hill the other side, I was doing OK, but my back was complaining already. I press on. At the corner of Kingsdown Road, the Red Lion seems to have been sold, and now waits its conversion to a house, so the village loses another pub.
Along the street to the edge of the village, most of the way being forced to walk on the road as people parked so to block the pavement. I take pictures planning to send them to the police of post online. But it is always this way.
From the edge of the village, it is mostly downhill all the way. My back settles down, and soon enough it doesn't hurt at all. Out of the village, past the new vineyard and past the scattered houses that are hidden from view along the road. Finally I come to the top of Norway Drove: i look down, it doesn't look too muddy, maybe I will go back that way after all. A quarter mile further on, the hill descending to Otty Bottom begins, normally I turn right here to the cliffs, but I thought that would be muddy, so decide to use the road instead.
The gate at the bottom has been replaced by two sturdy bollards, but I reckon a couple of lads could get a mini through the gap on one side, and be able to drive from Kingsdown to St Maggies. Maybe not.
The road levels out, and passes by more scattered large house, not many others around, so I am lost in my thoughts. Eventually, I come to the junction where the road from the golf club joins, and I have to take cover in puddles so not to be run over by some pringled Audi driving twat.
Around a bend and I can see the sea in front of me. From here it is a ten to fiteen minute walk, and I have an hour. So I can wander, or find a bench to sit on and ponder my existence.
It is cold on the bench. Even with my hat on, zip on my coat pulled up. I decide to go for a warming pint of chilled beer and wait for Rob inside. That seemed the sensible thing to do.
Not put here for great technical acclaim, just wanted to share a moment with you (see the tags).
Micky was my first dog.
We had others before him, but he was mine. As usual, there is a "Rosie tail" to accompany the story of us getting him!
When I was four years old, I had to go into hospital to have my tonsils out, my adenoids removed and gromits put into my ears (a pretty standard operation in the world of kids).
I think just before I went in, the Disney film Dumbo had just been released. You know, the one about an elephant....
Being a just a wee thing, my mum stayed in with me but Dad had to stay at home and just come to visit. One day, he came and said:
"I've got a surprise for you at home. Because you've been poorly and been such a good girl."
My goodness I was excited...Dad had gotten me a baby elephant hadn't he?! Surely he had!
Oh what fun me and my very own Dumbo would have!! We could play, I could ride on him and fiddle with his long trunk and big flapping ears!!
I was so excited. I couldn't wait to go home and get my surprise present.
The day finally arrived and I waited in the car when we got home so Dad could go and get my present.
I waited, I wriggled with excitement. Waiting for my elephant to come trotting down the garden path on a lead.
But hang on, Dad didn't have an elephant with him. I couldn't see anything. What was going on??
"Here you go...here's your new friend" Dad said as he opened his jacket...and there was a tiny, little, grey, fluffy puppy.
Not an elephant.
Hmph.
I must admit, it was a huge disappoinment. I'd been waiting for my little elephant friend so I could become the Mowgli of North Wales and there was a puppy.
He was incredibly cute though and I loved him, probably more than I would love an elephant.
Then when I was 18, he left us and now he is resting at the top of the garden, with a rose bush.
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DAY 21: "PUT YOUR PARTY ON"
(DRESSES !!)
BFA entry for B's
"Blythe A Day" for the month of
DECEMBER 2014
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ALTHEA: "You'd best hurry up and powder your nose, sister ... and finish getting ready ... or we'll be late to the party!"
CARRINGTON: "Well, I am Princess A La Mode ... I am SUPPOSED to be shiny! ...
and not only that ... but I am a Super Star in the Blythe World, so ... pretty sure the party will WAIT for me ... "
ALTHEA: " ... yeah, whatever sister ... You DO know there will be 6 AND 7 liners there ... so ...
"..... And let me know if you change your mind ... ... I know where Mom keeps the Mr. Clean Magic eraser ... no need competing with Kenner AND Rudolph ... "
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Photo Credits:
Models today are:
CARRINGTON COUSTEAU; PAM; Liccafied
ALTHEA AYON: Hand~Flower Custom with Raspberry scalp; Liccafied
BOTH girls are wearing their Holiday Party dresses BY PAM (Not Princess A La Mode PAM, but PAM from what we like to call "engendered Sissy" ...
[[[ The official name of her shop is of course "endangered" sissy, but that means "soon to be extinct" (!!) ... so we like to think her shop and designs are "engendered" ... as in, the start and birth of something NEW! ]]]
We have to say, we love her dresses ... each one is more beautiful than the next, made so well, and as you can see ... the PERFECT party dresses for our girls! <3
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Girls are also wearing stockings from TDWS (The Daughter Who Sews), another great etsy shop;
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The Ballyfermot Gathering was held on the 26th July 2013. This idea was put to the Ballyfermot Heritage Group in March 2013 by Valerie Coffey who works with the Ballyfermot and Chapelizod Partnership, to see if the Heritage group would be interested in joining with the Partnership in running this event. It was decided by the Heritage group that we should get involved and the rest is history. A great night was had by 400 plus people that attended starting at 7.30pm and finishing at approx 2.30am
Thank you to the best of Ballyfermot
Joe Coleman and Tom Hopkins who were the M,C,s for the evening
Brother Ugeane and the De La Salle Boys Music Group
Ballyfermot Folk Group
Erica O Reilly School of Irish Dancers
Jamie Lang
Cash is King
McHeff
Wayne Redmond
Urban Folk
Pado Cullen
Paddy Sweeney
The Beer Mats
All the above gave there services free so that all profits from the night would go to the Ballyfermot Vincent De Paul
Also thanks to all the people and Business in Ballyfermot that donated Prizes for the Raffle
The Ballyfermot United Sports and Social Club and all the Staff for their help
And to the Ballyfermot and Chapelizod Partnership and to the Ballyfermot heritage Group
Special Thanks to Valerie Coffey for a great idea
Link to Video about the Ballyfermot Gathering www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDRq9Im5uiE&feature=youtube_g...
Soo I've put my sp threesixtyfiive on hiatus. I think the world has seen enough of this ole' mug o' mine, at least for the time being. Instead I'll be exploring a central theme for twenty eight days. I thought we'd start with something simple soo October is all about the Still Lives, enjoi..
I've been waiting to shoot these crazy little things they look like some sorta underwater sea creatures. I layed them out on the kitchen counter and started snapping away. I thought the shot was missing something so i fired a speedlite through a strainer too get that big beautiful blue bokeh ball. The speedlite is actually behind the camera that is it just reflecting off the window in the background.
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“Put me out of my misery… I'd do it for you, would you do it for me”
Misery: Soul Asylum, let Your Dim Light Shine
I never knew if David Pirner really intended this song to be about a suicide pact, but I know that he is a bit of a tortured soul. That is a bit of an understatement. You can see it in his eyes and in the way he carries himself. We’re all tortured souls at some point- but some people’s time in misery seems to last longer than others.
When this song came out I remember my jaw dropping. It wasn’t because it was the greatest composition that I’d ever heard in my life… more so it was because he sang exactly what I was feeling. I had been going through a lot of issues and had nonchalantly told myself that if my life was not better by the end of the year, I wouldn’t be around to complain about it the next year. I know that sounds pretty dark, but that’s what I was thinking. This song just ripped me open and shoved that line into my soul over and over… “Put me out of my misery… put me out of my misery…” It didn’t heal me, it made it worse.
That summer actually turned out to be one of the greatest summers of my life. You rarely recognize in the moment that you’re setting precedents. It’s usually only in hind sight that you realize how wonderful a time was. I remember for my birthday I got extremely intoxicated and really I only remember about an hour of the entire night. I very, very vaguely remember crying this song line over and over again. She was pretty concerned because I never really let on that I was in such a misery… and like David Pirner- I can’t always hide my misery.
The next morning I took my final exam still half drunk and aced it. And when I got back from spending the weekend with my family- needless to say she and I had a long talk.
*** Artist Notes ***
The notion was of stabbing someone if they shot me = suicide pact
Lyrics:
They say misery loves company
We could start a company and make misery
Frustrated, Incorporated
Well I know just what you need
I might just have the thing
I know what you'd pay to see
Put me out of my misery
I'd do it for you, would you do it for me
We will always be busy making misery
We could build a factory and make misery
We'll create the cure; we made the disease
Frustrated, Incorporated
Frustrated, Incorporated
Well I know just what you need
I might just have the thing
I know what you'd pay to feel
Put me out of my misery
All you suicide kings and you drama queens
Forever after happily, making misery
Did you satisfy your greed, get what you need
Was it only envy, so empty
Frustrated, Incorporated
Frustrated, Incorporated
Frustrated, Incorporated (put me out of my misery)
Frustrated, Incorporated (I'd do it for you, would you do it for me)
Frustrated, Incorporated (forever after happily)
Frustrated, Incorporated (making misery)
PALAIS HARRACH
In 1435 Jörg Puchheim acquired three small houses on the Freyung and had them put together into a residence. By 1600, the baron and later Empire Count Karl von Harrach acquired this property and received here prominent guests, such as the commander Wallenstein, who took Mary Isabella, daughter of Karl Count von Harrach to his second wife. After a fire in 1683 the present magnificent building was under the direction of Domenico Martinelli, who decisively participated in the construction of the Palais Liechtenstein, built. It is suspected that the Palais Harrach was the first major construction contract for the well-traveled Italian Baroque architect. In 1844 there were major modifications under Franz Ernst Haarach that should make room especially for the gallery. At that occasion the façade to the Freyung has been completely redesigned. The construction follows today the Viennese tradition of the city palaces. It has three storeys and by the dreizehnachsig (13-axis) säulenflankierte (flanked by pillars) portal that clearly stands out from the dull yellow facade, you get into the transverse oval driveway. In addition, particularly should be mentioned the magnificent staircases in the palace.
Until the 30s was the valuable Harrachsche collection of paintings here preserved, but this was yet taken away before the start of the Second World War from Vienna and were kept until 1954 in various salt mines in the Salzkammergut, as well as on Castle Clam, Upper Austria. That was good thing, because in a bomber attack in 1944, the Palais Harrach was heavily damaged by several bombs. In the Mary's Immaculate Conception Chapel of the Palais Harrach is as high altarpiece the copy of a painting by Ribera, the original is located in the Harrachschen collection of paintings in Castle Rohrau/Lower Austria. By reconstruction of the existing Baroque building stock, the Palace was restored in the years 1948-52 and was till 1980 in possession of the family Harrach, who sold it to the city of Vienna. Due to the moving in 1994 of the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Art History Museum Vienna) in Palais Harrach currently exhibitions, recitals, lectures and concerts are taking place and are moving it so back into the center of Vienna's cultural life.
Palais Harrach
On the pavement in front of the Palais Harrach a part of the original medieval road surface was uncovered and preserved for the public.
Since 01 December 1994 is the Kunsthistorisches-Museum-Vienna tenant of the Palais Harrch. The rooms on the first floor are available for receptions, dinners, press conferences, chamber concerts, wedding cocktails, lectures, readings, etc. In the context of an event there is the opportunity to visit the State Rooms and the respective exhibitions.
Facilities and Capacity:
Entrée: 70m2 or 60 people
Dining room: 90m2 or 80-120 people
Parade Room: 90m2 or 80-120 people
Large living room: 99m2 or 80-120 people
Admission:
Full price ... 7,00 EUR
reduced ... 5,00 EUR
Vienna Card ... 6,50 EUR
Address: 1010 Vienna, Freyung 3
Opening times: daily 10-18 clock
Phone: +43 ( 0) 1 532 12 30 / Fax: +43 ( 0) 1 535 84 27/homepage/email
addition:
In lieu of today's school center Ungargasse 67-69 1030 Vienna, Aloys Thomas Raimund Count Harrach, Viceroy of Naples (1669-1742) in the years 1727 to 1735 had by Lukas von Hildebrandt in two phases built a splendid palace with two courtyards and one in honor to the holy Januarius consecrated chapel. This was the Garden Palais Harrach, to which a huge garden in baroque style with many pavillions of pleasure connected. The grandson of the owner sold the Garden Palace 1791 to Leopold II. Under Francis II the garden was planted with fruit trees, so this was referred to as Emperor Garden (Kaisergartengasse). Then on it stood the hospital Rudolf-Foundation and the Landwehr cadet school. The building at the end of Second World War fell victim to an air raid and was removed, only the Januariuskapelle partially remained preserved.
Link to the district pages where historical views are available from the garden . direct Link
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this is for the deranged/bewildered archaeologist convinced that he hears crackling from underneath the pavement.
(next to face2face project, courtesy of flickr.com/photos/idiotthewise)
Vintage postcard, no. 731. Photo: M.G.M.
Paula Raymond (1924-2003) was an American model and actress who played the leading lady in numerous films and television series. In 1950, she was put under contract by MGM, where she played opposite leading men such as Cary Grant and Dick Powell. She is probably best remembered for one of the first atomic monster movies, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953). In the late 1950s and early 1960s, she appeared in countless episodes of TV series.
Paula Raymond was born Paula Ramona Wright in 1924 in San Francisco, California. Her father was a corporate lawyer. She was the niece of Farnsworth Wright, the editor of the pulp magazine 'Weird Tales'. Following her parents' divorce, Raymond and her mother moved to Los Angeles. As a child, Raymond studied ballet, piano, and singing. She was a member of both the San Francisco Opera Company and the San Francisco Children's Opera Company. By chance, she makes her film debut at age 14 during a visit to Los Angeles. She is credited as Paula Rae Wright in the comedy Keep Smiling (Herbert I. Leeds, 1938), starring Jane Withers. Four years later, she graduated from Hollywood High School in 1942. Following graduation, she returned to San Francisco to attend college to study pre-law. Her attorney father wants his only child to follow in his footsteps. She also worked with two theatre groups there. Before she became an actress, Raymond was a photographer's model. Her work included posing for the cover of True Confessions magazine. In 1944, she gave up her acting ambitions when she hastily married Marine Captain Floyd Patterson, while he was on leave from the war in the Pacific. Two years later, they divorced and, to support her young daughter Raeme, Raymond returned to Hollywood to take bit parts under the name of Rae Patterson. Although contracted to Paramount in 1947, she was released without working there. She appeared in films like the musical comedy Variety Girl (George Marshall, 1947) starring Mary Hatcher. In 1947, she was signed by Columbia, where, as Paula Raymond, she spent two years appearing in B-movies, including the Film Noir Night Has a Thousand Eyes (John Farrow, 1948), starring Edward G. Robinson, and several Westerns such as Challenge Of The Range (Ray Nazarro, 1949), starring Charles Starrett. She was discovered by George Cukor and given a minor role in the Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn vehicle Adam's Rib (George Cukor, 1949), after being spotted guesting on the early TV drama The Million Pound Bank Note (1949).
In 1950, Paula Raymond was put under contract by MGM, where she played opposite Cary Grant in the drama Crisis (Richard Brooks, 1950), and Robert Taylor in the Western Devil's Doorway (Anthony Mann, 1950). Ronald Bergan in his obituary of Raymond in The Guardian: "It looked as though Raymond, a striking brunette, might break into real stardom. Certainly in the former, the first feature by Richard Brooks, she is delightfully cool as she accompanies her brain surgeon husband (Grant) to a South American country, where the dictator (José Ferrer) needs an operation. Caught up in a revolution, the couple want to return to New York, where the chic Raymond would rather do some shopping." After leaving MGM, Raymond appeared in the film for which she is probably best remembered, one of the first atomic monster movies, The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (Eugène Lourié, 1953) with Paul Christian aka Paul Hubschmid. In this Science-Fiction cult classic, she appeared as a palaeontologist who links several sea and beach disasters to a prehistoric creature on the loose as a result of an atomic test. She provided a little glamour and romance in a picture where the actors were secondary to Ray Harryhausen's special effects. Raymond acted in Film Noirs such as City That Never Sleeps (John H. Auer, 1953) with Gig Young, Mala Powers and Marie Windsor. In 1954, she starred as Queen Berengaria in King Richard and the Crusaders (David Butler, 1954), starring Rex Harrison. She also starred in the western The Gun That Won the West (William Castle, 1955). Raymond also did some work for Paramount Pictures using the screen name Rae Patterson. By 1955, she had become a "has-been" by Hollywood standards and Raymond left the industry and worked in several jobs under a variation of her married name. But in 1958, she returned to acting and became part of the television renaissance. In the late 1950s, Raymond appeared in such television shows as Perry Mason (1959-1964, five episodes), Hawaiian Eye (1959-1962, five episodes), M Squad (1958-1960, three episodes) with Lee Marvin, 77 Sunset Strip (1959-1964, four episodes), Peter Gunn (1958) and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1959).
During the early 1960s, Paula Raymond played opposite Jack Kelly in an episode from the Western comedy television series Maverick (1961), opposite Jack Kelly in an episode of Maverick (1961), and opposite Clint Eastwood in an episode of Rawhide (1962). In 1962, Raymond was driven by her friend, Gloria Beutel in a car on Sunset Boulevard, when Gloria lost control of the car and crashed into a tree. The car overturned several times, and Raymond was pulled just before it exploded. Raymond's nose was severed by the rearview mirror and had to be reconstructed by a plastic surgeon. After a little more than a year of extensive plastic surgery and recovery, she returned to acting. Raymond was cast in episodes of series like The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) and Death Valley Days (1964). In the cinema, she could be seen in the low-budget Horror film Blood of Dracula's Castle (Al Adamson, 1967), and the lurid Western Five Bloody Graves (Al Adamson, 1969), where she was the madame of a travelling brothel. In 1977, after retiring for some years, she got a role in the daytime soap opera, Days Of Our Lives. After only three appearances, she accidentally tripped on a telephone cord and broke her ankle. She was written out of the show. She moved into business interests, though remaining an actor at heart. Her final film appearance was in the straight-to-video erotic thriller Mind Twister (Fred Olen Ray, 1994) with Telly Savalas. In 1944, Raymond had married Floyd Leroy Patterson. In 1946, they divorced shortly after the birth of their daughter, Raeme Dorene Patterson. In 1965, she married aircraft executive Harry Leslie Williams, who was 20 years her elder. They divorced a year later. In 1993, Raymond's daughter died. Paul Raymond passed away in 2003, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles from a series of respiratory ailments. She was 79 and survived by a granddaughter. Paula Raymond is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. In 1999 she started working on her autobiography “I Was Born Right, Where Did I Go Wrong or The Misadventures of a Dumb Dame” but she died before it was finished.
Sources: Ronald Bergan (The Guardian), Jim Beaver (IMDb), Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen, Wikipedia and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
If you have a front-cell focusing lens with a distance ring held by set screws, mark the location of the infinity index on the lens after you remove the distance ring.
Now you can put it back in the correct orientation. Use the original indentations (or drilled pockets as here) for the set screws to make it exact.
In virtually every case, the correct infinity position will be the farthest back that the lens can go with the index lined up. If you have a multi-start thread for the focusing helical that can complicate things a bit, but generally you need to be on the thread that reaches the infinity mark when it's almost seated all the way back. Of course it's always a good idea to check focus after reassembly, but you'll generally find that this has put you in the right place.
Only a couple days left until Halloween! Second Life's recent news has put a lot of us in a turmoil, including me. I started re-evaluating all the land that WET owns here on the grid...
So, what's a gal to do? Well, I couldn't help myself... I ended up partying as usual. Hehe. With Halloween parties galore, I ended up hanging out with old friends and new ones...
DJ Qwark Allen had a cool costume party at Hydra. So, I showed up dressed in bows... a present! LOL! I met Rush Gastel, an awesome builder at Dancing Water. Check out the pics of the chameleon colors on the psy suit. Loved it.
Then a quick stopover to hear DJ Zap Hax. I want this man to spin for me at a party! His musical catalogue is incredible.
How can he spin minimal, proggy, house, motown, rolling stones, german metal, industrial and DnB all at once? And without hesitation or jarring changes? Damn. Go check him out at Electro Smog.
Another stop at DeRailed (speaking of industrial...) held me captive too long. I always think I'll stay for 30 min... I always end up leaving when the DJ leaves! Their Halloween party is after Halloween... hangover party LOL!
DJ Digital sent an invite to Codie's Rouge Lounge. They had a great event blending RL & SL Dj's. Love the Rouge Lounge... so enticing.
Party would not be complete without time at the number #1 club on SL grid, Dance Island. They are having a special event there, too on Halloween. The costumes are always fun there.
But, the world of SL would not be complete without my angel. We both headed to see Maximillion Kleene over at Bubbly Ballroom.
Ahhh... so romantic, so beautiful. Both Xavier and I love getting dressed up. And to hear Max's sweet voice is the ultimate for a romantic date at Bubbly.
ps. I also caught up with Max at Stardust and over at the special event at Secondstock... OMG, there was 99 people at that party! Holy shiz! LOL!
The mayor of Kopavogur and the chief of council putting a 175 year old Shua chief's tsantsa (shrunken head) on display. From wikipedia: "The practice of preparing shrunken heads originally had religious significance; shrinking the head of an enemy was believed to harness the spirit of that enemy and compel him to serve the shrinker."
Put her head on the KID body to see if I liked her better. She is absolutely one of the most beautiful sculpts, but I NEVER play with her. Don't know how I feel about this head/body combo. *sigh*
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This priest was about to put on some black sunglasses when i was to take my shot, but when I explained i would do it without the flash he agreed to keep the shades off. I like the way the light enteres the stone church here and hits bothe the processional cross and his eyes and head,
This is why I love to shoot waves about an hour before sunset. When you take one look at the lighting conditions, you might want to write them off as too harsh to be shooting into, but take a moment to observe how waves magically become backlit in the strong light... The shadow of the wave puts a much cooler color on the face and whitewash, therefore causing them to appear very blue compared to the rest of the scene.
Zac was trying to sleep, I was trying out the new camera. I just couldn't help myself!! Cute though, eh?
By @nspugh
If the FT are reporting* ’Brakes put on UK shale gas revolution’, how are investors going to feel? This admission is a big win. It never was viable. It always was a desperate scrabble to maintain governmental private profiteering. Old school fossil fuel habits, strongly influenced by the fossil fuel lobbyists which hold court and ear within our governance. An institutionalised belief that renewables could never meet our needs... or simply not profit them, as they hold all the wrong investment portfolios. Old fashioned governance from a bygone era of fossil fuel energy independence and pollution: where did the North Sea energy independence and profits go?
After witnessing, listening to, and being part of the anti-shale gas voice; as an investor would you now back shale gas UK? Projecting forward our voice's were only ever going to get stronger, larger in numbers. As it would have been on everyone’s back door. The post environmental, health damage, science and reports coming out of America are unequivocal.
We only have two radioactive waste water treatment plants in the UK- the cost of scale up? The cost of strict regulation? The industrialisation of the 'remaining' rural Britain? The cost of pollution, and sub-sequential litigation?
The only way shale gas exploitation was ever going to be viable was at scale, Britain is not America; it all goes to show how naively business minded our governance is. Let’s hope they cut their loses, see sense and go all out for renewables. Combined renewables where community profit first, on an assisted national scale. As when you and yours benefit, the resistance to renewables will drop away. No longer seen as unsightly, or disproportionally sited on your doorstep.
A new political era of climate change governance and private investment needs to sweep in, pulling out of fossil fuel investments and at last backing the real deal, mixed combined community benefiting renewables.
In the very real new era of political governance of global warming, with its potentially devastating consequences, it can't come to soon.
*Brakes put on UK Shalegas revolution - www.ft.com/cms/s/0/99d6a16e-a3ba-11e3-88b0-00144feab7de.h...
Have your say and feed into the ‘The Wales We Want’ thewaleswewant.co.uk/content/get-involved
Ensure that’ The Future Generations Bill Wales’ legislation really is underpinned by sustainability wales.gov.uk/about/cabinet/cabinetstatements/2014/futureg...
Welsh Government Community Energy Program ‘Ynni’r Fro” are contucting a Mid term evaluation of the community energy groups.
wales.gov.uk/statistics-and-research/evaluation-ynnir-fro...
Community energy schemes: what's holding local people back? www.theguardian.com/big-energy-debate/community-energy-sc...
Community power on the up www.foe.co.uk/news/community_power_up_40701
Increasing the threshold for devolved consents for all energy generation from 50MW to 350MW www.clickonwales.org/2014/03/creating-a-clear-and-stable-...
further refs:
Burden: An appeal to the Welsh Government www.flickr.com/photos/65365631@N04/8571858946/
Do not be seduced by a 'fracking’ gas bonanza www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/9747207/Do-not-be-sed...
Shale gas rush 'a liability' in efforts slow climate change www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2331319/achim-steiner-shale...
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These are from our pre-deployment training at Fort Carson last fall. Combatives are like wrestling/martial arts - a lot of people get hurt learning this crap, that someone up there in the Army has decided it is a good thing for us soldiers to learn. There are a lot of really gay-looking moves. One of these moves is called shrimping. I forget the rest. The way I figger it, if I am *ever* in a position to try and use these ridiculous moves on the enemy, I am fucked anyway. If that's all I got left - no ammo, no buddies with weapons and ammo - I am definitely up the ol' shit creek. But I can use some gay-looking moves on someone! Hooah!
Girls put brass rings on their necks when they are about 6 years old and increase the number every year until their necks become longer as a symbol of beauty.
女孩子大約在6歲時將銅圈放在頸上, 數量隨年齡增加, 長頸就代表美麗.
Taken in Chiang Rai